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On 09/20/2013 08:40 PM, drew craig
wrote:
On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote:
The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze.
Now, when I run alsamixergui:
lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui
I get an error box saying:
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: invalid argument
No pulseaudia is installed.
I get the same problem on a fresh install of Wheezy on my husband's box.
on-board sound on my box: chipset Intel Z77 Express chipset
root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# lshw | grep snd
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
I have no idea where to look. I have googled the error message, and get a
lot of hits. It is obviously a common error, but I could see no solutions
that seemed to fit my situation. Probably couldn't see the wood for the
trees. :-(
Two people had succeeded by purging everything Alsa related and installing
Alsa from upstream, though one of them had to run snddevices after every
boot. Hardly satisfactory, especially on my husband's box.
Any suggestions, please? Ought I to purge and install from upstream? In
general, I prefer to stick to Debian versions.
Thanks for any help,
Lisi
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I ran into an alsa issue awhile back and solved it by altering the conf file. May or may not be of any help. I wrote it up here
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=409
I hope I am not hyjacking this thread but, while my problem
seems to be somewhat different, it still started with a wheezy
upgrade that killed my sound system. I don't think that any one
has identified the root cause of this problem and are kind of
using a shot gun approach to the problem solving. So let me get as
specific as I can. Running as root 'service alsa-utils restart'
produced the following return:
root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart
[ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done.
[....] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed
with error message 'Home directory /root not
ours.'...Home directory /root not ours....
Can anyone explain this error message and suggest a fix.
I hope my above statement doesn't insult anyone. I know a lot of
effort has gone into this thread. But my observation still stands.
I'm finding references to this problem all over google but no
reasonable solutions. I can't believe that there
are more than one or two actual problems here. Programs just don't
usually break in multiple ways all at the same time.
Gary R
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